MainWP Blog - Sebastian Moran

Stopping spam comments for spam form submissions is normally solved using an anti-spam plugin or service or in the case of a form plugins using reCaptcha or another captcha service. One of the newer options for protecting spam on your site is Human Presence. Unlike using a captcha service on-site forms the spam protection is invisible to site users and a frictionless experience. The service also integrates with a number of other platforms and CMS such as Magento, Drupal, and Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce can send a bunch of site data out if usage tracking is enabled on your site. This might have been enabled when your first setup WooCommerce on your site when you used the setup wizard. An example of some of the site data that is being sent out when WooCommerce usage tracking is enabled; Site URL Admin email address Active payment gateways Active shipping methods Activated plugins in list form MySQL version PHP version PHP Settings, such as maximum Continue reading the post...

Wordfence is a commonly used plugin for site security that has a free version and a premium version. Wordfence includes a number of constants that can be added to the site’s wp-config.php file to turn off specific features and change some of the defaults. MainWP has an easy-to-use code snippets plugin that will allow you to save these constants to any of the connected child sites into the child sites wp-config.php file. The Wordfence scan results page will show up Continue reading the post...

Jetpack is a heavily used plugin that connects to a service that has over 5+ million active installs. If you are using Jetpack on your site then you should be aware of what information on your site it is sending out. Jetpack connects to WordPress.com in order to be able to provide a number of the modules for its features to function. You should be aware that the plugins, must-use plugins, the uploads directory size, and themes that are being Continue reading the post...

Gravatar is a hosted service from Automattic which allows you to create an avatar that is used on WordPress sites. If you need to disable user Gravatar on a site for performance reasons you can do so using a couple of free plugins. The first plugin is called Disable User Gravatar and once the plugin has been installed and activated you can disable Gravatar and use a locally uploaded image in the following settings; Settings > Discussion The Disable User Continue reading the post...

One of the easiest ways to help prevent brute force attacks is by being able to limit login attempts. This is where variations of commonly used username and passwords are used to try to gain access to your site. If you are not already using a security plugin on your site such as iThemes Security Pro, Wordfence, Sucuri, or Shield then one of the simplest plugins to limit login attempts is WPS Limit Login. After you have installed and the Continue reading the post...

WooCommerce recently added a setup dashboard widget which is loaded in the WooCommerce admin and would display in wp-admin. If you want to remove the extra dashboard widget bloat from displaying for clients then you can easily remove it using a code snippet. Even in the current version of the WooCommerce 5.7.1 the dashboard widget is added extra dashboard widgets in wp-admin. MainWP has a solid and easy-to-use extension for code snippets that you can save and execute code snippets Continue reading the post...

You may be aware of the number of activity logging plugins for WordPress but there is now a dedicated event monitoring service called Logtivity. Logtivity has a massive range of features such as event tracking, instant alerts, and a customizable reporting dashboard. Logtivity is very easy to integrate into your WordPress site. First, you will need to create an account, then add the site. After you have set up and added the site now you will need to copy the Continue reading the post...

There are a number of form plugins out there for WordPress but one of the most recent form plugins is one that works natively in the block editor and it is called Formality. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new admin menu item called; Formality Under the menu item, it will show forms and results. To create your first new form you can click on the add new for add new form buttons on Continue reading the post...

The WP Rocket is a well-used full-page caching plugin that includes a number of optimization options. In version 3.9 of the WP Rocket plugin, it included a new remove unused CSS beta feature. The feature will use a background process that will run from a cron event and can take a while to run the feature depending on how much CSS needs to be removed on the site. The feature will use a custom database table to store the data Continue reading the post...